Entering the camp
With a ding, the transmission cabin slowly opened in front of the few people. The cabin was cylindrical and silver in color. It was more transparent than the metal inner walls they usually saw. No one knew what material it was made of.
There are several light strips running from top to bottom inside, emitting dazzling light.
"Let's go in. We have to know where this place is."
The woman in a blue nurse's uniform and Crocs spoke first, then stepped into the transport cabin first.
Ding Can also had doubts in her mind. Fifteen minutes ago, after downloading an app, she and her room appeared in this area of unknown origin.
The sound of the radio reminded her that she had joined the place called Diary Training Camp.
We only know the name, but don’t know what it does. Everyone is in the dark now.
They were currently located on the eighth floor of the training camp building, which was used as a dormitory. There was a common long and narrow corridor, but there was only one room at each of the four corners, and the middle was just a blank wall, which was very strange.
The room numbers are 801, 802, 819 and 820. Ding Can lives in room 820. I don’t know why the rooms in between are not there.
Did it never exist at all, or did it exist and then disappear?
Besides her, the man living opposite at 819 is called Xia Jialian.
When she realized something was wrong, she pushed the door open almost at the same time as the other person, and looked at each other in her home clothes, with more surprise than panic.
Xia Jialian wears a blue and gold cochlear implant on her right ear. Because she is born with hearing loss, she can only communicate with others normally with the help of a hearing aid.
The woman who entered the elevator first was Shi Yan, who worked in Room 801. She was a nurse in the emergency department of the hospital and was supposed to be on night shift at the hospital today.
In addition, the boy living in 802 was younger than them. He was a college student who came here to work and study. His name was Gao Wenwen, and he was working in a convenience store before the accident.
We are all adults. Besides being panicked, we also understand that the current situation cannot be explained by science at all. The most important thing is to understand clearly what is happening.
While Ding Can was still in the room, he opened the curtains and looked out. It was not a familiar scene. There was still light outside, the setting sun was shining, a flock of birds was flying past the clouds, and lush trees on the ground were growing along the lakeside.
It's a beautiful natural scenery, but if you look closely, you can find that they are just electronic images, like those displayed on a large LED screen. It's more likely that you are in some kind of enclosed space.
There are no numerical markings on the inside of the transport cabin, and it appears to be used separately for each floor.
After the four of them entered, the hatch sensed something and slowly closed, gradually descending. Gao Wenwen looked around the interior. The unfamiliar environment made him feel a little claustrophobic. He took off his baseball cap and fanned himself a few times, using talking to relieve his tension.
"Do you think many people will be brought here?"
Shi Yan gathered the strands of hair that had fallen from her ears, her eyes determined. "I don't know. It's more important to figure out what this place wants us to do and how to get back."
Ding Can had been calculating the time since he entered: "Don't you think the speed of this teleportation cabin is very slow? If you compare it to the speed of the elevator going down, if you come down from the eighth floor, you should have reached the first floor long ago."
The strange environment made people nervous even at the slightest movement. Gao Wenwen's hairs stood on end. "Could this be a bottomless pit?"
Fall endlessly until all life is exhausted.
He still had the convenience store employee ID card around his neck. He picked it up and knocked the metal part where the rope and card were connected against the wall. There was only a crisp impact sound, nothing surprising.
Because the wall was smooth, the metal scraped along the wall, making a sharp sound.
Xia Jialian wasn't used to the sudden sound, so he turned his hearing aid a little further away. His body paused for a moment as he glanced at the hatch. "We're here."
Despite his poor hearing, his speaking voice is no different from that of an ordinary person. If I hadn't seen the hearing aid, I would never have guessed that he had an ear disease.
I just speak slowly, I don’t know if it’s for others to hear clearly, or for myself to hear more clearly.
The lobby on the first floor was much larger than the one on the eighth floor. Ding Can looked around and noticed the sign for the third zone and eighth floor on the hatch.
The space here is so large, probably because of the special shape of the building, where the first floors of several buildings are connected together.
She counted the number of teleportation cabins. Each area had 25 floors, and there were nine areas in total. If there were people in every room, there would be nine hundred people gathered here.
What is going on that requires so many people?
Everyone arrived in the hall before the broadcast timer expired.
At a glance, there are more young people there, with only a very small number of children and elderly people. It makes sense if they all downloaded the app.
Many people didn't understand what had happened, and after getting together to discuss it for a long time, they still couldn't find any clues.
There was a sound of an electronic door opening. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound. Originally, there were no doors or windows in the hall except the transmission cabin they came down from.
And now, a few meters above the sky, an inconspicuous wall suddenly opened to both sides, extending a small platform, which turned out to be a secret door.
The mechanical sound stopped, the door opened completely, and a man wearing a black T-shirt, overalls, and short boots walked out.
When they suddenly saw a stranger, all kinds of questions popped up in everyone's mouths, making the already noisy environment even louder. Some people even tried to climb onto the platform, but it was futile without any support.
"Welcome everyone to the Diary Training Camp. I am your head coach."
Although he said he was welcoming, his face was stern and expressionless, without any trace of joy on his face.
The expression looks more like that of a modeled mannequin.
"You will undergo a 21-day training course and can leave the camp after successful completion. The course is divided into three stages: basic, intensive, and sprint. The number of participants in the training will be randomized, including individual competitions, team competitions on the same floor, and collective competitions."
"After completing each test, students need to record their experience in the Daily Notes app. The camp will use this information to evaluate and score students, which will serve as the basis for their final ranking."
"The camp entrance test is about to begin, please be prepared."
The coach's voice was flat and he ignored all the questions from the campers. After saying all this, he left without giving anyone time to react, and the wall returned to its original state.
"What are you looking at?" Xia Jialian noticed that Ding Can was still looking up.
Ding Can withdrew his gaze from the stern wall. "I was just wondering if there were more people hiding here than just that coach."
She took out her cell phone. From the moment she entered the space, the Daily Notes app turned into a white screen. After exiting, all other original software in the phone also disappeared.
At present, everything seems to be normal. I wonder if there will be any new changes after the so-called camp entry test is over.
*
In the minibus, the air conditioner was turned on very low, and I could still smell the unpleasant odor of stagnant air. The lights outside were flickering, and I was driving in a tunnel.
Ding Can squinted her eyes due to the swaying. The car was very dark. She looked around and noticed that Gao Wenwen and Xia Jialian were there, but Shi Yan was not in the car.
The three of them winked at each other and moved to the empty seats in the last row.
There was a backpack on her knees. It felt a bit heavy when she picked it up, and it made a rustling sound, as if there were a lot of small things in it.
She sat down against the car window and opened the curtain a little. Then she opened her backpack and found a lot of cosmetics and tools inside.
This is a car temporarily rented by the crew to pick up and drop off staff.
And I am the makeup artist in the group.
The schedule set was for a three-day horror film shoot called "Daytime Terror 3". The director chose a villa in a nearby county. They gathered and set off, and the drive took nearly two hours.
"Why isn't Sister Shi Yan here?"
Some people were still sleeping, so Gao Wenwen spoke in a lower voice.
Xia Jialian had just checked the traffic as she was walking around in the car: "There are several other cars following us. She might be in another one."
The car was driving out of the tunnel at this time, bumping over the speed bumps. Ding Can looked out the window and noticed that they were passing through a toll station.
Now it was relatively close and the toll booth was built high, so she didn't see the name of the booth clearly. She only vaguely saw two words. The railing in front of the booth automatically lifted up after sensing the vehicle.
After a few minutes, the road ahead gradually became narrower and a group of villas could be seen in the distance.
The car was driving very slowly, so I could see the buildings outside clearly.
After just a few glances, Ding Can felt that the construction style of this villa area was very diverse.
First, there were old Western-style houses with red tiles and whitewashed walls, reminiscent of the Republican era. Then, there were Chinese-style quadrangles with large courtyards and red lanterns hanging at the entrances. Then, there were large garden houses with gray and white walls and winding paths, and then there were European-style buildings with pointed roofs and Gothic styling.
Along the way, the styles are really varied, and it seems that the owners of nearby properties have a lot of say in the decoration.
The car finally stopped in front of a beautifully decorated three-story house.
After getting off the car, Ding Can saw Shi Yan among the people getting off a business car behind. She was accompanied by an assistant holding an umbrella. She was the protagonist of this movie.
It is a low-cost online movie with a limited budget, and only some actors and models with little fame are invited.
Shi Yan walked towards them and asked, "Are we really going to finish filming here?"
It was called an entrance test, but there was no accurate explanation for it. I was in the training camp hall one second, and here I was in the blink of an eye.
"It seems we can only take it one step at a time."
Gao Wenwen had just stood up when he was called away to the luggage compartment of the minibus to move equipment. He was the prop master of the crew and had to move all the props that would be used into the villa first.
There were quite a few scattered around, and he went in and out several times.
Xia Jialian was responsible for receiving the radio. After entering the house, he found the power supply and turned it on to test whether the device was intact.
Because we only signed a three-day lease with the villa owner, the filming task was quite heavy, and we had to start work after a short rest.
Ding Can took a quick look at the villa at the door. After entering, there was a small yard covered with grass. There was a red car parked on the left and a very clean swimming pool on the right.
A horizontal banner with black characters on a red background was posted on the main door, which read: Wealth, honor and peace.
Although the act of filming a supernatural film is inherently suspicious, nothing out of the ordinary has been discovered so far.
Let’s go inside and check it carefully. Before going in, she was stopped by the director.
"Xiao Ding, you'll just be responsible for the main character's makeup later. You won't be able to handle too many people. The extras have special effects makeup, and someone has already done it for them. You don't need to touch it up for them. It would be even more troublesome if they mess up their makeup later."
"Okay, director." Ding Can agreed first.
"The community fire department reminded us that you must pay attention to fire prevention after entering."
The director had an anxious look on his face. After giving the instructions, he went into the villa. It seemed that he really had a lot of things to deal with.
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